Dragoljub Mićunović

Dragoljub Mićunović ( ; 14 July 1930 – 26 May 2026) was a Serbian politician and philosopher. As one of the founders of the Democratic Party, he served as its leader from 1990 to 1994, and as the president of the parliament of Serbia and Montenegro from 2000 to 2004. In the 1960s and 1970s, he was affiliated with the Praxis School and was a professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. In 1990, he co-founded the Democratic Party and was elected as a member of the National Assembly of Serbia. He remained an MP until 2020, when the Democratic Party boycotted the elections. He was also a presidential candidate in the 2003 Serbian presidential election.

Early life Dragoljub Mićunović was born on 14 July 1930 in Merdare, Kingdom of Yugoslavia. He spent his childhood in Skopje where his father Mile worked as a civil servant. Following the annexation of parts of Yugoslavia by the Italian puppet Albanian Kingdom and Axis Kingdom of Bulgaria, he sought refuge in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia. After World War II, he resumed high school in Kuršumlija and Prokuplje.

After his release, he became an assistant at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy. due to taking part in the 1968 student demonstrations in Yugoslavia.

At the first multi-party elections in Serbia in 1990, he was elected a Member of the Parliament of Serbia on behalf of the Democratic Party.

Mićunović's Democratic Centre party merged into the Democratic Party in 2004, Mićunović remained an MP until 2020; he was last elected in the 2016 Serbian parliamentary election.

In 2017, Mićunović signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks, and Montenegrins. In January 2020, he stated his opposition to the Democratic Party boycott of the 2020 parliamentary election.

Personal life and death Mićunović authored five books and over 100 papers.